Monthly Archives: April 2011
AMD Is Shipping 32-nm ‘Llano’ Chips for Mainstream PCs
Advanced Micro Device's "Llano" processor for mainstream notebooks and desktop PCs is now shipping and is expected to appear in systems sometime this quarter.AMD...
Android Is the New Microsoft Windows Mobile (for Now)
As of this writing, Google's Android operating system has captured 33 percent of the U.S. smartphone market share through February, according to comScore.That's one...
Silverpop Breach Monetized as Fake Adobe Reader Updates
Silverpop attackers are finally beginning to monetize the customer data they stole last fall from the email marketing company. The spam campaign using email...
Microsoft’s Google EU Filing, Allen Tell-All Dominated Week
It was an irony so big that even Microsoft's general counsel had to acknowledge it: After spending years wrestling with antitrust investigations by the...
Google Android Lockdown Could Benefit Windows Phone 7, Apple iOS
When it first hit the marketplace, Google Android had a lot to offer smartphone manufacturers looking for an operating system capable of tackling Apple's...
Android Malware Threat Highlights Risks to All Smartphones
The recent revelation in Wired News of a new Android malware application highlights the risk that comes with getting your applications from unknown sources....
Intel ‘Sandy Bridge’ Sales Disappoint, AMD Benefits: FBR
Intel's "Sandy Bridge" processors may not be exciting the PC user base as much as the chip maker may have expected, according to one...
Windows Phone 7, Apple iOS to Follow Android in 2015
Few disagree that Google's Android operating system is becoming the Microsoft Windows of the mobile operating system world.Analysts from both IDC and ABI Research...
Verizon iPhone 4 Can’t Slow Android’s Roll: comScore
Verizon Wireless' iPhone helped Apple iOS gain nearly a full percentage point of market share through February, but it didn't impede the progress of...
Microsoft’s Google Antitrust Filing Latest in Long-Running Feud
Microsoft this week filed an antitrust complaint against arch-rival Google with the European Commission, a regulatory body that's hit Redmond executives with monopoly investigations...